Ms. Constance Morris Hope is a certified executive coach, consultant, and facilitator with over 35 years of experience in management, communications, and strategic planning in the public sector, international organizations, and academia.

She is the Principal of Carapace Coaching and Consulting, a coaching and consulting practice that specializes in helping individuals, groups, and organizations improve performance through greater self awareness, more effective communication, strengthened relationships, greater clarity of purpose, and more focused effort. She uses a combination of assessment, feedback, coaching, and consulting to help individuals and teams work more effectively and efficiently.

Ms. Hope specializes in coaching:

• Leaders/executives (established and in transition)

• Diverse work groups/teams (international, racial, personality type, gender)

• Women in changing life situations (career transitions; promotions; marriage, divorce; retirement)

• International women adjusting to life in the United States

• Americans adjusting to life abroad

As a senior staff member and manager at the World Bank working closely with a 24-member multinational executive board, and management, Ms. Hope excelled in positions that required strong intercultural communication, listening, and writing skills as well as diplomacy, tact, and trust. She led change initiatives, advised executive directors and senior management, coached and mentored staff, and helped to build effective multicultural teams during several periods of transition and change in corporate culture.

Ms. Hope was a professor of African History and chairman of the Department of History at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) where she led a diverse team of 12 professors and researchers. She also taught at Georgetown University.

Born in Liberia, Ms. Hope grew up in a multicultural environment, going to school in the United States and returning home for extended periods. She is passionate about learning about different cultures, both local and global, and is driven by a desire to promote greater understanding among people of diverse backgrounds. She has lived in Italy and traveled extensively in the rest of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Ms. Hope holds degrees in Political Science with a focus on Russian and African Studies and in International Relations/International Economics from Bard College and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies respectively. Certified as a Co-Active Coach by the Coaches Training Institute and to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator , the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory, and the FIRO-B Element instrument, Mrs. Hope has supplemented her training with related courses including Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching; Integral Coaching Principles; Building Teams with Type; Team Tools; Using Type in Coaching; Leadership and Type; Coaching Executives and Managers; Type Training Skillshop; Communicating Across Cultures using Type; Group Facilitation Methods; Creative Facilitation Using Improv; Appreciative Inquiry, and The Universal Language DISC.

Ms. Hope is the chairman of the board of Global Woman Magazine (soon to be published) and serves on the board of the Phelps Stokes Fund, the oldest continuously operating American foundation serving the needs of African Americans, Native Americans, Africans and the rural and urban poor. She is a member of the International Coach Federation, the American Society for Training and Development, the Black Professional Coaches Alliance, and the International Positive Psychology Association.